CVE-2022-22942 (GCVE-0-2022-22942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-13 08:16 – Updated: 2024-08-03 03:28
VLAI
Summary
The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Privilege escalation
Assigner
vmware CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 254 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Photon OS Affected: 3.0, 4.0
Date Public
2022-01-27 07:06
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